Producers Tôru Hirayama and Susumu Yoshikawa originally wanted to make a series faithful to the famous web-slinger's origins, but Bandai, one of the sponsors, told the studio to add a giant robot (as giant robots were all the rage in Japan). Hirayama and Yoshikawa met their demand with complete incredulity, and they reluctantly rewrote Spidey's origins completely for the show.

A little less profanity in this next one...it's a short film made in 1997 by some of the VFX artists who worked on Spawn. It uses an animation style similar to South Park's predecessor, The Spirit of Christmas.